Behaviour: actions or reactions of a person in response to external or internal stimuli
Stimuli: any thing or event in the environment that evokes a response, overt or covert, conscious or subconscious or unconscious
Environment: circumstances or conditions that a person is in
Experience: apprehension, realization of an object, thought or emotions through the senses; active participation in events/activities
Science: methodical activity, discipline, study
Consciousness: mental alertness to a particular situation; being aware of one’s environment or existence, sensation and thoughts
Subconscious: not wholly conscious; part of mind below level of conscious perception (e.g. hear a sound that recollect later)
Unconscious: lacking awareness and capacity for sensory perception; absence of conscious awareness/thought; involuntary or unintended
Covert: hidden, not seen
Overt: open, observable
Positive science: attempts to describe things as they are, not how they ought to be; descriptive, objective; e.g. pure physics
Normative science: how things should be; which things are good and which bad; which actions are right and which are wrong
Applied science: application of knowledge to solve particular problems
Perception: understanding the information obtained through the senses
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